..The actor Ernst Deutsch began his theater career in 1914 at the Viennese
Volksbühne and his career led him to the most important German-speaking
theaters. His parts distinguished through an intensive, sometimes tremendous
performance which predestined Ernst Deutsch for gaunt and evil figures.
These parts gave him a reputation as an expressionist actor par excellence.

Although his name couldn't be more "German" he was undesirable in his
own country in the 30's because of his Jewish roots. He already left Germany
in 1933 and played at theaters in Vienna and Prague as well as in Zurich
and Brussels.
During a theater tour in England he acted in the movie "The Marriage
of Corbal" (36), in 1938 he went to the USA where he got the American nationality
one year later.

In the following years he usually impersonated Nazis or officers in
the USA under his pseudonymous Ernest Dorian, among them "The Man I Married"
(40), "So Ends Our Night" (41), "The Prisoner of Japan" (42), "Enemy Agents
Meet Ellery Queen" (42), "Nightplane from Chungking" (43) and "Isle of
the Dead" (45).
In order to get by financially he also sold apartments along the way.

Ernst Deutsch returned to Vienna after the war, from 1951 he lived in
Berlin. He appeared only a few time in the post-war film like in "Der Prozess"
(48), "The Third Man - Der dritte Mann" (49), "Nathan der Weise" (55),
"Sebastian Kneipp - Ein grosses Leben" (58) and "Vor Sonnenuntergang" (62).